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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) – Argentina registered its first death from mpox, the disease formerly known as monkeypox, when a patient died in a hospital in the capital Buenos Aires, the health ministry said. The fatality was a 44-year-old man who was diagnosed with untreated HIV-AIDS and suffered septic shock, which caused his death, the health ministry said Monday. The patient had been hospitalized since mid-September in intensive care with respiratory assistance and his death was […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – The monkeypox vaccine is highly effective, protecting people as early as two weeks after the first dose, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. A preliminary analysis posted by the agency found that between July 31 and September 3, unvaccinated people had 14 times the risk of acquiring monkeypox disease compared to people who were vaccinated, 14 days or more after their first shot. The results were […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) – China recorded its first case of monkeypox on Friday in a person who had recently entered the country, officials said. Health authorities in the southwestern city of Chongqing said the person displayed symptoms while undergoing quarantine for Covid-19. Under China’s zero-Covid policy, people entering the country must typically complete between one and two weeks of isolation on arrival. The monkeypox patient was diagnosed after developing symptoms including a skin rash, the […]
by Issam AHMED Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A second US death was linked to monkeypox on Tuesday as health authorities published a study describing how two previously healthy young men experienced inflammation of the brain and spinal cord as a result of the virus. There have been nearly 22,000 US cases in the current global outbreak, which began in May, but new infections have been falling since mid-August as authorities have […]
Copenhagen, Denmark (AFP) The World Health Organization said Tuesday it saw “encouraging” signs the monkeypox epidemic was slowing in Europe and heading “in the right direction”, calling on countries to double down on efforts. “There are encouraging early signs, as evidenced in France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, the UK, and other countries, that the outbreak may be slowing”, the WHO regional director for Europe, Hans Kluge, told reporters. “It’s going in the right direction”, he […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) – Monkeypox cases fell by a fifth last week as infections in Europe dropped but the outbreak is going through “intense transmission” in the Americas, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The WHO sounded the alarm for Latin America in particular, pointing to a lack of awareness and public health measures to control the spread of the virus. A surge in monkeypox infections has been reported since early May outside the African […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia has recorded its first case of monkeypox in a 27-year-old man who returned from travelling overseas, the country’s health ministry said on Saturday. The World Health Organization designated the outbreak of the virus an emergency last month — something it reserves for diseases of highest concern. Indonesian health ministry spokesperson Mohammad Syahril said the patient had a “high awareness and knowledge of the disease”. “So when he got the […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines on Friday, Aug. 19, confirmed two more monkeypox cases in the country. According to Department of Health Officer-in-Charge Maria Rosario Vergeire, the two new cases, which brought the total in the country to three, are aged 34 and 29. The two had recently traveled to countries where monkexpox cases have been confirmed. Vergeire said the 34-year-old patient is under home isolation. The 29-year-old patient, meanwhile, is in a medical institution. […]
by Nina LARSON Agence France Presse The World Health Organization called Wednesday for people infected with monkeypox to avoid exposing animals to the virus following a first reported case of human-to-dog transmission. A first case of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox — between two men and their Italian greyhound living together in Paris — was reported last week in the medical journal The Lancet. “This is the first case reported of human-to-animal transmission… and we believe […]
by Nina LARSON The World Health Organization, which is looking to rename monkeypox, called Tuesday for help from the public in coming up with a less stigmatising designation for the fast-spreading disease. The UN health agency has for weeks voiced concern about the name of the disease that emerged onto the global stage in May. Experts warn the name can be stigmatising to the primates it was named after, but who play little role in […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – US health authorities on Tuesday authorized a new procedure for injecting the monkeypox vaccine that should make it possible to inoculate more people with the same amount of the drug, at a time when doses are running short in the country. The Food and Drug Administration also authorized giving the vaccine to people under the age of 18 who are considered to be at high risk of infection. For those […]
by Aishwarya KUMAR Agence France Presse NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — Indian authorities reported Asia’s first possible monkeypox fatality on Monday after the death of a man who recently returned from United Arab Emirates testing positive. Kerala state’s health ministry said tests on the 22-year-old “showed that the man had monkeypox”. Three monkeypox-related fatalities have so far been reported outside Africa in an outbreak that the World Health Organization has declared a global health […]
